The present and future of post production business and technology

Day: May 24, 2010

  • Goodbye Satellite truck – stream H.264 instead.

    Goodbye Satellite truck – stream H.264 in real time over WiFi or cell network instead. http://bit.ly/aHLnAG The device, [a portable battery-powered, video encoder] which can be attached to a camera, creates a H.264 file which is streamed to a CDN via Wifi or to a cellular network.. This sort of functionality for live streaming is currently…

  • Is Android the “Windows” of the Mobile world?

    Is Android the “Windows” of the mobile world to Apple’s Cocoa Touch (aka OS X)? http://bit.ly/alUHW7 Is the operating system of choice war gone from Microsoft vs Apple, to Google (Android) vs Apple (Cocoa Touch/OS X) for the mobile handset OS of choice?  Looks certain that Android will be very pervasive as t’s as adaptable…

  • MASH Finale vs LOST Finale

    MASH Finale – 106 million viewers; LOST finale – 13.5 million. Hasn’t the defintion of a “HIT” fragmented with burgeoning channels? Even a hit show of today wouldn’t get renewed 20 years ago, such is the fragmentation of viewership.

  • Flash For Smartphones Is Finally here – and it’s terrible?

    Flash For Smartphones Is Finally Here, And It Is Terrible http://bit.ly/cHhKvj Apparently the performance is good for games but in a browser it’s as bad as Steve Jobs predicted. Of course, this is beta software – both the version of Android OS and Flash 10.1 for mobiles – so this isn’t the final form we…

  • 10 Tips to better pricing

    10 Tips to better pricing http://bit.ly/9aFpu4 How 1% increase in revenue usually leads to 11% increase in profit. There’s a lot of detail, and not every suggestion applies to every business, but these will find their way into my “How to Grow your Production and Post Production business” (Next up May 19 in San Francisco…

  • The sky is always falling with new technology

    Cracked nails it! http://bit.ly/dn0Cpz With every technology innovation we’re all doomed. Again. and Again. Will they never learn! The various industry spokespeople and representative never look for the opportunity, only the threat. Look how the industry’s first responses were so very, very wrong. VCR’s Will Kill Television! Phonographs and Player Pianos Will Kill Music! Pirated…

  • Branded Content: Why you should care.

    Branded Content: Why you should care http://bit.ly/d6P0fn I believe branded content is more the future of advertising than ads. When advertising becomes content, if I’m interested in the content, I’m probably also interested in what the brand is offering. I only hate (with a passion) irrelevant advertising that interrupts the program I’m watching. Relevant advertising…